L-R: Craig Carnelia, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Sondheim
L-R: Craig Carnelia, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Sondheim

Note: I’ll be using initials to show which of the three writers is speaking and, in the case of myself, I will also include to whom I’m speaking, which in some cases will be you, the reader.  When addressing the reader, I will italicize the text to further delineate these passages from my dialogue with the writers.

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Craig Carnelia
Craig Carnelia

is a composer/lyricist. Broadway - Music and Lyrics: Working; Is There Life After High School? Lyrics: Sweet Smell of Success; Imaginary Friends. Off-Broadway - 3 Postcards (Playwrights Horizons). Regional - Poster Boy (Williamstown); Actor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (Goodspeed). Longtime Council member of the Dramatists Guild of America.